Lot
43

TWO EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURES

LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.

TWO EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURES
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.
Including a seated nude Harpokrates with an incised amulet around his neck, wearing the side-lock of youth and a Double Crown fronted by a uraeus, his left hand lowered, his right hand raised with the index finger resting on his lips, his feet resting on a low plinth, a suspension loop on the reverse at his neck; and an Isis and Horus, the goddess depicted seated with her feet resting on an integral plinth, twin tenons below for insertion, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath and a uraeus-fronted wig, the headdress with a cobra-surrounded modius supporting cow horns and a solar disk, holding the child god Horus on her lap, her left hand cradling his head, her right offering her breast
4¾ in. (12.1 cm) high for Isis and Horus (2)